Kenneth Arble
Dr. MacDonald was guilty of commiting the crimes of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters. There is more than enough evidence justifying this conclusion. All of the murder weapons were ditched out the back door. Fibers from his shirt was found under each of the bodies. There was several motives found whether his wife was cheating, hit him or his daughter wetted the bed, Also he was found to have a list of mental ailments that would aid in his role of commiting the crime. His story changed several times during the trial. He passed a polygraph, but that can be passed by many people and with the lsit of mental ailments he may have been able to convince him self that he was innocent which would aid in MacDonalds passing of the polygraph. No sign of struggle was found down stairs where he fought the assalents except a knocked over planting pot and a flipped table. His pajamas where found to have straight holes rather than jagged ohles that would be present if he used it to ward off the assalents. Also why did they leave him alive but kill the rest of the family. This all points to him being convicted of being guilty of murder. Also the left handed person and Helen may have been co-conspirators in the murder which explains the three weapon types and wounds. The left handed person weilded the blunt board used to beat the women. Helen used a knife and MacDonald the ice pick. He was found to have a concusion and several stab marks and scrapes. The concusion could have been from being struck with the board and the stab wounds from Helen. The co-conspirators turned on him after the murderes for an unknown reason. Also he fake cried when on the stands and didn't display any emotions for his family when shown the photographs. An innocnet man would at bare minimum show some emotion to the pictures of his dead family.MacDonald was a conspirator in the murders and was helped by two other assalents that were not convicted.
He was however given an un fair trial due to poor investigation and inproper projedure.
Kayla Benson- I really find Jeffrey MacDonald to be guilty of committing the murders. For one, his stories NEVER match up. On the first site given, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald, it states that he saw intruders but he could only describe what the woman was wearing. BUT, on this website, http://www.themacdonaldcase.org/Case_Overview.html, it goes into more detail about what each person was wearing. How can you say what each was wearing, if you could only see what the woman was wearing? On the website that Kaitlin posted, http://www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com/html/memo_mcnamara_1973-06-26.html, it goes into a lot of detail about evidence given. The excuse for sleeping on the couch because his daughter Kristen had urinated in the bed had been proved wrong because when DNA checked, it didn’t match with the Type O blood that Kristen has. Though, it would match up with the DNA of a person with Type A blood (Colette) or Type AB (Kimberly). It also goes on to say that it would most likely match better with a person of Type AB DNA, meaning that it’d have to have been Kimberly to “wet the bed” not Kristen. Also, in this link, it goes on to say how the blood type of all these people had been found in all the room. This means they had been moved from the room they were killed in, to the room in which they were found. Why would any murderer want to move their victims’ bodies to a different room? What satisfaction does that bring to them? Also, on another site, it goes on saying that the intruders had stuck around until the phone rang; Helena picked the phone up, while the others left. Why would they stick around in a house in which they murderedbasically four people, if you count the unborn child Colette was carrying? Would it bring them joy, happiness? No, that’s honestly completely stupid. If I were to murder someone, I’d want to get out of that house as soon as possible, not stick around. So unless these were REALLY stupid intruders, I don’t believe it. http://www.themacdonaldcase.org/Case_Overview.html.
On an interview he does he sounds all confused as what to say about his recollection of that night. He seems to contradict himself many times. At one point he states about sleeping on the couch, and when he woke up, he could see people at the foot of the bed. How is that possible when he’s sleeping on the couch? Also, this contradicts with what he has said as a story in a link above that he had woken up to the intruders surrounding him on the couch. Unless they’re magical, they can’t be in two places at once. http://www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com/html/interview1970.html To me it seems as though he was trying to say the right thing. Just say anything to clear his name. In the links above, it goes into detail about fibers being found from Jeffrey’snightshirt are all around where the victims’ bodies were. They even found a fiber from his shirt under the fingernail of his daughter Kristen.
I do believe that he wasn't given a fair trial, and should've been found innocent though.
Kenneth Arble
Dr. MacDonald was guilty of commiting the crimes of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters. There is more than enough evidence justifying this conclusion. All of the murder weapons were ditched out the back door. Fibers from his shirt was found under each of the bodies. There was several motives found whether his wife was cheating, hit him or his daughter wetted the bed, Also he was found to have a list of mental ailments that would aid in his role of commiting the crime. His story changed several times during the trial. He passed a polygraph, but that can be passed by many people and with the lsit of mental ailments he may have been able to convince him self that he was innocent which would aid in MacDonalds passing of the polygraph. No sign of struggle was found down stairs where he fought the assalents except a knocked over planting pot and a flipped table. His pajamas where found to have straight holes rather than jagged ohles that would be present if he used it to ward off the assalents. Also why did they leave him alive but kill the rest of the family. This all points to him being convicted of being guilty of murder. Also the left handed person and Helen may have been co-conspirators in the murder which explains the three weapon types and wounds. The left handed person weilded the blunt board used to beat the women. Helen used a knife and MacDonald the ice pick. He was found to have a concusion and several stab marks and scrapes. The concusion could have been from being struck with the board and the stab wounds from Helen. The co-conspirators turned on him after the murderes for an unknown reason. Also he fake cried when on the stands and didn't display any emotions for his family when shown the photographs. An innocnet man would at bare minimum show some emotion to the pictures of his dead family.MacDonald was a conspirator in the murders and was helped by two other assalents that were not convicted.
He was however given an un fair trial due to poor investigation and inproper projedure.
Kayla Benson-
I really find Jeffrey MacDonald to be guilty of committing the murders. For one, his stories NEVER match up. On the first site given, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald, it states that he saw intruders but he could only describe what the woman was wearing. BUT, on this website, http://www.themacdonaldcase.org/Case_Overview.html, it goes into more detail about what each person was wearing. How can you say what each was wearing, if you could only see what the woman was wearing?
On the website that Kaitlin posted, http://www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com/html/memo_mcnamara_1973-06-26.html, it goes into a lot of detail about evidence given. The excuse for sleeping on the couch because his daughter Kristen had urinated in the bed had been proved wrong because when DNA checked, it didn’t match with the Type O blood that Kristen has. Though, it would match up with the DNA of a person with Type A blood (Colette) or Type AB (Kimberly). It also goes on to say that it would most likely match better with a person of Type AB DNA, meaning that it’d have to have been Kimberly to “wet the bed” not Kristen. Also, in this link, it goes on to say how the blood type of all these people had been found in all the room. This means they had been moved from the room they were killed in, to the room in which they were found. Why would any murderer want to move their victims’ bodies to a different room? What satisfaction does that bring to them?
Also, on another site, it goes on saying that the intruders had stuck around until the phone rang; Helena picked the phone up, while the others left. Why would they stick around in a house in which they murdered basically four people, if you count the unborn child Colette was carrying? Would it bring them joy, happiness? No, that’s honestly completely stupid. If I were to murder someone, I’d want to get out of that house as soon as possible, not stick around. So unless these were REALLY stupid intruders, I don’t believe it. http://www.themacdonaldcase.org/Case_Overview.html.
On an interview he does he sounds all confused as what to say about his recollection of that night. He seems to contradict himself many times. At one point he states about sleeping on the couch, and when he woke up, he could see people at the foot of the bed. How is that possible when he’s sleeping on the couch? Also, this contradicts with what he has said as a story in a link above that he had woken up to the intruders surrounding him on the couch. Unless they’re magical, they can’t be in two places at once. http://www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com/html/interview1970.html To me it seems as though he was trying to say the right thing. Just say anything to clear his name.
In the links above, it goes into detail about fibers being found from Jeffrey’s nightshirt are all around where the victims’ bodies were. They even found a fiber from his shirt under the fingernail of his daughter Kristen.
I do believe that he wasn't given a fair trial, and should've been found innocent though.